Initiative: Any Discernible Benefit?

By qwertyuiop, in X-Wing Rules Questions

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CappyTom said:

Let say you don't have initiative but you do have the lowest and the highest pilot card in the game. Won't you still move first and fire first? Then all the other pilots will fire in order of course using initiative. Or am I reading the rules wrong?

The one pilot with the lowest skill will move first… and the one pilot with the highest skill will fire first (assuming that they're alone, no ties on pilot skill with your opponent). Initiative only matters when both players have pilots with the same skill.

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dbmeboy said:

CappyTom said:

Let say you don't have initiative but you do have the lowest and the highest pilot card in the game. Won't you still move first and fire first? Then all the other pilots will fire in order of course using initiative. Or am I reading the rules wrong?

The one pilot with the lowest skill will move first… and the one pilot with the highest skill will fire first (assuming that they're alone, no ties on pilot skill with your opponent). Initiative only matters when both players have pilots with the same skill.

That is what I thought.. Just getting confirmation.

Thanks